Dawn is back in California just in time to see the surfing competition, and solve a mystery concerning a missing surfer, a mangled surfboard, and a ghost that surfs at night!

It was almost as if time had not touched the village of Cornwall Coombe. The quiet, peaceful place was straight out of a bygone era, with well-cared-for Colonial houses, a white-steepled church fronting a broad Common. Ned and Beth Constantine chanced upon the hamlet and immediately fell in love with it. This was exactly the haven they dream of. Or so they thought. For Ned and his family, Cornwall Coombe was to be come a place of ultimate horror.

Cavalry captain Gabriel Lacey returns to Regency London from the Napoleonic wars, burned out, fighting melancholia, his career ended. His interest is piqued when he learns of a missing girl, possibly kidnapped by a prominent member of Parliament. Lacey's search for the young woman to murder, corruption, and dealings with a leader of the underworld. At the same time, he struggles with his disorientation transitioning from a soldier's life to the civilian world, redefining his role with his former commanding officer, and making new friends--from the top of society to the street girls of Covent Garden. Book 1 of the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries. This is a full-length novel.

A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katharine Green

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The imprisoned assassin Albert is introduced to a problem by a returning inmate. Someone has been purposefuly vandalising cars that are parked in the inmate's neighborhood, but nobody seems to understand why... Nor can anyone catch the vandal.Peace of a nice, quiet neighborhood is interrupted by a vandal, who goes to great lengths to demolish other people's cars. Nobody feels safe and everyone suspects one another. Who does it? And why? Inmate Albert is looking to find that out as he chats with one of the victims - a small-time thief nicknamed 'The Crutch.'This is the second short story of the 'assassin Albert' collection.

John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who he is, they want nothing to do with him -- until outlaws ride down on them and they must rely on Russell's guns and his ability to lead them out of the desert. He can't ride with them, but they must walk with him or die.

New York Times bestselling author Carl Hiaasen serves up a humorous helping of "taut, fast-paced action...crisp and hot" After dispatching a pistol-packing intruder from his home with the help of a stuffed Marlin head, Mick Stranahan can't deny that someone is out to get him. His now-deceased intruder carries no I.D., and as a former Florida state investigator, Stranahan knows there are plenty of potential culprits. His long list of enemies includes an off point hit man, a personal injury lawyer of billboard fame, a notoriously irritating TV journalist, and a fumbling plastic surgeon.Now, if he wants to keep fishing into his golden years, Stranahan has no choice but to come out of retirement to close this one last case...

Excerpt from Ruth Fielding in the Saddle: Or College Girls in the Land of GoldWill you do it? Asked the eager, black eyed girl Sitting on the deep window Shelf. If Mr. Hammond says the synopsis of the picture is all right, I'll go.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A 12 y/o boy is kidnapped - but the ransom price is left to his parents! Before he is returned (safely) another boy is taken. Then another. Rookie detective Joseph Lindahl is a psychology graduate and thinks he knows what the kidnapper wants - but colleagues are sceptical. The solution might please the press and embarrass a judge, but it it gets Joseph into trouble at Longmarsh Police HQAbby refuses to marry the monster to whom she is betrothed. As she flees, she meets a mysterious stranger at a wayside inn. His startling proposition will either save her, or leave her mired in scandal.

Vampire bats: Evil. Clever. Deadly. Driven by blood-hunger across the American landscape, they bred and multiplied, unseen and unsuspected, each one a grisly messenger of death. No warm-blooded creature is safe from their thirst. Now, as darkness gathers, the sky is filled with the frantic motion, the maddening murmur of . . . Nightwing.

Nancy tracks down the thief responsible for stealing the million-dollar Raja diamond during a gala ballet performance.

Catch a quick glimpse of Book 1 of the Skyvalley Cozy Mystery Ghost Trilogy Series:-It’s Emmy and Daniel’s first wedding anniversary and they’re having dinner at Sky Cornerstone, one of the best restaurants in town. In the middle of dinner, everyone in the restaurant is shocked by a scream coming from the powder room: A woman has died and people are left in shock because no one has any idea how.Catch a quick glimpse of Book 1 of the Skyvalley Cozy Mystery Ghost Trilogy Series:-It’s Emmy and Daniel’s first wedding anniversary and they’re having dinner at Sky Cornerstone, one of the best restaurants in town. Some people recognize Emmy for being the one in charge of the biggest change in Sky Valley’s police department yet, courtesy of the sacking of Lena McMahon, the woman who almost destroyed Emmy’s life in the past year. In the middle of dinner, everyone in the restaurant is shocked by a scream coming from the powder room: A woman has died, and people are left in shock because no one has any idea how it happened. Questions arise, but there are no definite answers, and everyone was prompted to go home even though they were all confused. What just happened? And furthermore, why did it happen? Are troubles going to start in Sky Valley again? Emmy is even more surprised when she’s haunted by a ghost named Lucy, who asks her to figure out what happened at the restaurant. Who is Lucy and what has she got to do with Emmy?And, how would Emmy be able to deal with this new turn in her life? Find out in the Ghosts of Sky Valley Series Book 1: The Deadly Dinner! - The Beginning

I wasn’t always a killer. I was an average guy, living an average life. Then my fiancé was kidnapped and murdered. I buried my conscience, teetering on losing my soul, and stepped into the vengeful role of a killer. I became a hitman. A hero to some. An angel to others. I am Michael Lynch and this is my story. This is where it all began.I wasn’t always a killer. I saw life just as easily as the next gullible, naïve kid looking at a rainbow with hope filled eyes. I was just another average guy, living just another average life. I did what was right, and never understood why anyone would choose to do differently. Then my fiancé was kidnapped and murdered. I quickly saw life without blindfolds. The kid inside me that still clung to dreams had to run and hide as there was no place for him anymore. Not with what I had in mind. Not with what had to be done. I buried my conscience, teetering on losing my soul, and stepped into the vengeful role of a killer. I became a hitman. A hero to some. An angel to others. I am Michael Lynch and this is my story. This is where it all began.

One summer night, a boy and his beautiful cousin plunge naked into the moonlit waters of a rural quarry. Twenty years later, the boy, now grown, flees the wreckage of his life and returns to Arden, Wisconsin, in search of everything he has lost. But for Miles Teagarden, the landscape he had known so well has turned eerie and threatening. And the love he shared has become very, very deadly . . .